First, the entire translunar spacecraft would be placed in earth orbit for a
revolution or two to properly prepare to enter an intercept orbit with the moon.
Upon arriving near the moon, the spacecraft would enter a lunar orbit. It was
easier to target ...

translunar. acl or result of transcribing. — adjs. transcriptional: transcrip'tive. —
adv. transcrip'tively. |L. trdnscribere. •scnptum.] transducer trans-du'sar, trans-, -z-,
in US -dobs', n. a device that transfers power from one system to another in the ...

translunar.org/prs PACIFIER – See chemical
inhibitor. PACKING FRACTION – The ratio (or percentage) of occupied-space to
void-space in a given volume of material. For example, when spheres of uniform
...

Ascent into orbit and subsequent translunar injection to boost Apollo 14 toward
the Moon were both normal. A series of serious problems arose shortly thereafter,
the first when the command and service module (Kitty Hawk) attempted to dock ...